Although the monastery was generous in donations, Emperor Xuanzong issued a decree abolishing their treasury on grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent, collected their riches, and distributed the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries, Daoist abbeys, and to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.

As an English privateer / pirate, he collected riches from French ships.

Although the monastery was generous in donations, Emperor Xuanzong issued a decree abolishing their treasury on grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent, collected their riches, and distributed the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries, Daoist abbeys, and to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.

At the end of every second level the player has a chance to spend their collected riches to upgrade their weapons, increase the number of hit points of their character, purchase new items and improve other character attributes.

All claimed the right to tax the Sami people, and Finnish-speaking tax collectors from the northern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia reached the northern coasts, their Russian colleagues collected taxes as far west as the Harstad area of Norway and the Norwegian tax collectors collected riches from the inland of the Kola peninsula.

Sarmiento de Gamboa developed an interest in Inca stories of gold and riches being collected from lands further to the west.

Basque sailors travelled the world, bringing back products such as cinnamon and riches from piracy and the whaling and cod trades.

February, from the Très riches heures du Duc de Berry

Mussolini wrote approvingly of the notion that profits should not be taken away from those who produced them by their own labour, saying " I do not respect — I even hate — those men that leech a tenth of the riches produced by others ".

Financed in part by the riches pouring in from its colonies, Spain became embroiled in the religiously charged wars and intrigues of Europe, including, for example, through its possessions in western Europe, engaging in wars with France, England, Sweden, and the Ottomans and in the Mediterranean and northern Africa.

In 1324, two years before his first visit to Cairo, the West African Malian Mansa, or king of kings, Musa had passed through the same city on his own hajj and caused a sensation with a display of extravagant riches brought from his gold-rich homeland.

June, from the Très riches heures du duc de Berry

He said that a " peasant who is in possession of just the amount of land he can cultivate ," and " a family inhabiting a house which affords them just enough space ... considered necessary for that number of people " and the artisan " working with their own tools or handloom " would not be interfered with, arguing that " he landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.

March, from the Très riches heures du duc de Berry

Explorations and conquest expeditions launched from Panama claimed new lands and riches from Central and South America.

What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory — even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Woodhull went from rags to riches twice, her first fortune being made on the road as a highly successful magnetic healer before she joined the spiritualist movement in the 1870s.

Many other forms of payment brought riches to the Holy See and its cardinals: tithes, a ten-percent tax on church property ; annates, the income of the first year after filling a position such as a bishopric ; special taxes for crusades which never took place ; and many forms of dispensation, from the entering of benefices without basic qualifications like literacy for newly appointed priests to the request of a converted Jew to visit his unconverted parents.

Some of the riches of these earlier books, such as the interesting technical ideas in Lakoff ( 1987 ), are absent from WMCF.

One reason why Nigeria may have been singled out is because of the comical, almost ludicrous nature of the promise of West African riches from a Nigerian Prince.

" The Times praised both the libretto and the music of the first act (" Everything sparkles with the flashes of Mr. Gilbert's wit and the graces of Sir Arthur Sullivan's melodiousness ... one is almost at a loss what to select for quotation from an embarrassment of humorous riches.

Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the sixteenth century, the first Englishmen to settle permanently in America hoped for some of the same rich discoveries when they established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.

As his military successes were well known in Spain, he attracted many recruits from a variety of backgrounds who joined his quest for riches in the New World.

Although many had gained riches from the war ( Dutch prizes taken during the war, about 1200 merchantmen or 8 % of their total mercantile fleet, amounted to double the value of England's entire ocean-going merchant fleet ), trade as a whole had suffered.

He was instead the crafty street urchin who through quick wits and luck rose from impoverishment to riches ".

1 Esdras 3-4 tells the story of a speech-writing competition between three bodyguards of Darius I, in which the winner would receive honor and riches from the King.

All Bible writers use the term " sea " ( Hebrew yam or Greek thalassa ) except the gospel of Luke, written to Theophilus of Macedonia, where it is called " the lake of Genneseret " in, from the Greek λίμνην Γεννησαρέτ, ( limnen Genneseret ), the " Grecized form of Chinnereth " according to Easton, who says Genneseret means " a garden of riches ".

Raleigh and Elizabeth intended that the venture should provide riches from the New World and a base from which to send privateers on raids against the treasure fleets of Spain.

In addition, 15, 000 men were taken prisoner, twenty-four standards were captured, and all the riches in the camp were lost to the Albanians.

The Texians had been fighting without pay, and most wanted to charge from camp and loot the expected riches.

According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, written in 350 BCE, Aristotle stated that happiness ( also being well and doing well ) is the only thing that humans desire for its own sake, unlike riches, honor, health or friendship.

The Brown Building is being demolished using futuristic ray guns, and the box with the frog is discovered yet again by a 21st-century demolition man, whom, after envisioning riches as well, absconds with the frog to start the process once again.

Its main objective was to find mineral riches, as well as to explore and chart unknown territory.

" By the time the furious anger at their insolence had drunk its fill of blood, the French had given up to the Sicilians not only their ill-gotten riches but their lives as well.

the Darling Plateau contains much riches in the way of gold, nickel, iron and bauxite, it has many small salt lakes on it as well.

Rowell proved to be something of a mentor, teaching the young jockey how to cope with the riches that would come his way, as well as his popularity with high society in the class-ridden system that prevailed in Britain between the wars.

Instead Pomerius urged bishops to give away all their riches and personal wealth as well as dress and eat simply.

It is trade as well that gave England its naval riches and power.

The king of the Byzantines and the Arabs who had heard of him sent their envoys and ambassadors with great riches and many great presents to the King as well as some of their wise men with the object of converting him to their own religion.

Polk characterized Guzmán as driven by lust for sex and riches — his greed and sadism were well known.

That expedition resulted in some noteworthy discoveries: the existence of the Hassayampa River and traces of mineral riches, including gold, in an area that looked well suited for ranching and farming.

Whilst ruling his kingdom, Goujian never relished kingly riches, but instead ate food suited for peasants, as well as forcing himself to taste bile, in order to remember his humiliations while serving under the State of Wu.

Reconciled, Conchobair and Cathal Carragh burned Killaloe, as well churches as houses, and carried off all the jewels and riches of the inhabitants ... Thomond ... destroyed and pillaged.

Only about fifty hatchments still exist in Scotland, unlike the riches to be found in England and the Netherlands ( where there may well be more Scots hatchments surviving than in Scotland ).

The old city centre is well preserved and show Wessem's riches in those days.

While some historians have suggested that a major chunk of the stored riches reached the kings in the form of tax, gifts, as well as conquered wealth of states and offerings stocked in the temple for safekeeping.